This month brings you another bumper crop of great reviews from the leading music magazines, quality dailies and online review sites. There’s no doubt about it: Naxos releases and distributes some of the best CDs and DVDs available!

International Classical Music Award – ICMA 2011

“A totally convincing performance, intensely eloquent with overwhelming climaxes. The playing of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra - which has been transformed under Petrenko's leadership - is superb.” - ICMA Jury

“Petrenko is a conductor who should remain in the international forefront for the next several decades.” - Fanfare

“Christopher Nupen - with the superb musical support of Vladimir Ashkenazy - rightly presents Tchaikovsky as an outsider in the Russian society. One simply must see this film to understand the sources of inspiration for the composer's music.” - ICMA Jury

“The coherence of Padrissa and La Fura’s overall conception goes hand and hand with an excellent cast and a fabulous orchestra, which has rapidly acquired a genuinely Wagnerian sound, with Zubin Mehta at the helm for an unforgettable performance.” - ICMA Jury

“It looks like a landmark Ring cycle, it is outstanding.” – BBC Music Magazine

Gramophone Editor's Choice

“What was Saint-Saën’s state of mind during the last year of his life? If music gives us a way into such things, then this is as good an indicator as any. As with so much of this composer’s music, these works are warm and astonishing melodic. But it also seems as though he would have moved into a new, more economical style had he had the time. Fine performances.” – Gramophone

“This is exemplary Haydn—that it happens to be church music only serves to remind us that here is a composer who could not only make sacred music cheerful, but cheerful music sacred.” – ClassicsToday.com

“The sonatas sound at home here in a relatively intimate acoustic. Janet Hilton revels in the Art Nouveau tendrils of Reger’s melodic lines, and Jakob Fichert in the intricate cross-rhythms of his piano parts; and their teamwork is exemplary.” – BBC Music Magazine

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